April Grateful List

ARTS:

• Seeing Matisse at the Chrysler
• Game of thrones is back!
• Reading The Precious One by Marisa de los Santos 
• Reading Before I Go by Coleen Oakley
• Hearing Cheryl Strayed on the Savage Love podcast
• Seeing The Sound of Music in the theater for the 50th anniversary 

FOOD:

• Chicken salad sandwiches at the new Slover cafe
• Potato salad from this recipe

PLACES:

• Anne's first Busch Gardens trip!
• Shopping with sis and mom at the wburg outlets
• Seeing tulip trees and cherry blossoms in bloom at Botanical Gardens
• The first beach day of the year with friends!
• Zoo tales for the first time in ages
• A lazy Saturday at Bluebird Gap Farm
• Driving around backroads Poquoson and talking with friend A. <3

STUFF:

• My piano! It's finally come to live at our house, after years of my parents keeping it during our condo phase, yay for annoying the neighbors
• Filling a bag with books for $5 at Anouk's school book sale
• Buying a heap of vintage fabric and trims from an estate sale

ETC:

• Visiting another great estate sale with Angela and Matt
• Participating in my first Kids Clothes Week
• Dyeing Easter eggs with playgroup
• Easter Monday pain au chocolat and egg hunt at Molly's
• Anouk's school carnival (I've still got you, ring toss!) 
• "Mom, I think dad really wants to go to a petting zoo. Really bad. We should take him this weekend, OK? So he won't be sad." 
• "You're cuter than a thousand mud holes." - Anouk's new saying, I have no idea where she got it?